[OE-core] Recipe versions and layer confusion

[Leonardo Sandoval]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 10:19:18 -0500
Leonardo Sandoval <leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 16:49:28 +0200
> Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I'm confused.
> > 
> > Layer "meta-xilinx" defines:
> > 
> > recipes-bsp/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware_2017.1.bb
> > 
> > This recipe is too old for my liking, so I made a newer one in "meta-topic"
> > 
> > recipes-bsp/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware_2017.3.bb
> > 
> > 
> > Much to my surprise, when I build, OE picks the 2017.1 version and not the 
> > 2017.3 version.
> > 
> > bitbake-layers show-layers reveils:
> > ..
> > meta-xilinx           /home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/meta-xilinx  5
> > meta-topic            /home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/meta-topic  6
> > ..
> > 
> > so that means that my meta-topic should win even if my PV were lower, right?
> 
> "For example, a layer that has a recipe with a higher PV value but for which the BBFILE_PRIORITY is set to have a lower precedence still has a lower precedence."

My bad. topic has higher priority than xilinx, so there is something wrong as you mentioned.

Leo


> 
> taken from
> 
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.3.2/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-BBFILE_PRIORITY
> 
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